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@@ -182,18 +182,48 @@ When tools disagree:
 6.  genuine tool limitations are documented;
 7.  the result is re-measured.
 
-**24 of 45 languages get all three tools compared, 16 more get two, and
-5 GitGalaxy-only languages** (`abap`, `dockerfile`, `jcl`, `livecode`,
-`yaml`) get hand-reviewed manual verification instead of cross-tool
-agreement. Of the 180 discrepancy shapes logged so far, **87 are
-validated (48%)** — read, investigated, and recorded with a verdict,
-not just counted.
-
-The goal is to finish the audit, close remaining GitGalaxy defects,
-establish independent ground truth where necessary, and then publish
-final precision/recall measurements. See
+**24 of 45 languages get all three tools compared, 13 more get two, and
+5** (`abap`, `agc_assembly`, `dockerfile`, `jcl`, `livecode`) **use
+committed manual verification** — in whole, or for the `args` metric
+where no tool emits a signature — instead of cross-tool agreement. Of
+the 201 discrepancy shapes logged, **200 are validated (99.5%)** — read
+against real source, investigated, and recorded with a verdict, not just
+counted.
+
+**Current state (2026-08-30), on the pinned corpus:**
+
+- **Functions — precision:** 100.0% validated across all 31
+  tree-sitter-comparable languages. Once every three-way disagreement is
+  read and verdicted, every function GitGalaxy reports is a real
+  function.
+- **Functions — recall:** 100.0% for 30 of 31. Shell measures 99.8% — a
+  single nested function definition (inside an `if` guard) that
+  GitGalaxy's top-level-only shell extractor doesn't reach by design.
+  Every other apparent miss is a validated comparison-tool artifact
+  (both tools independently hallucinating the same macro, per-clause
+  tagging of one Haskell function, and so on).
+- **Classes:** GitGalaxy is never the tool found wrong in any class
+  disagreement — 100.0% validated recall and precision wherever a class
+  ground truth exists.
+- **Arguments:** GitGalaxy is never debited in any *validated* argument
+  disagreement either; each one resolves to tree-sitter or ctags
+  miscounting, or a language with no formal parameter list. One small
+  Objective-C shape is still unverified.
+
+This is a narrow benchmark: three structural targets, one fixed corpus,
+and several languages whose entity counts are small enough that a
+percentage means little. It is not "GitGalaxy parses as accurately as an
+AST" in general — it is "for the entities GitGalaxy's graph needs,
+targeted extraction recovers them as completely as established parsers,
+here." Real code outside the corpus will surface shapes it doesn't cover;
+the mandatory occurrence-level
+[recall audit](docs/self_scan/tri_comparison_README.md#the-recall-audit-is-gitgalaxy-missing-anything)
+is the standing process for the next one.
+
+See
 [the tri-comparison methodology doc](docs/self_scan/tri_comparison_README.md)
-for how matching, the ledger lifecycle, and CI enforcement work.
+for how matching, the ledger lifecycle, the recall audit, and CI
+enforcement work.
 
 ![Tri-comparison](docs/self_scan/tri_comparison_chart.svg)
 
@@ -413,11 +443,14 @@ never hand-edited.
 ### Tri-comparison
 
 The same corpus is analyzed against GitGalaxy, Tree-sitter and Ctags
-where coverage exists — 24 of 45 languages get all three tools, 87 of
-180 logged discrepancies validated so far. See
+where coverage exists — 24 of 45 languages get all three tools, 200 of
+201 logged discrepancies validated. On the pinned corpus, GitGalaxy is
+never the tool found wrong in a validated function-precision, class, or
+argument disagreement, and matches tree-sitter's function recall
+everywhere except one nested shell definition it skips by design. See
 [the methodology](docs/self_scan/tri_comparison_README.md) and the
 ["structural validation" section above](#structural-validation-gitgalaxy-vs-tree-sitter-vs-ctags)
-for the full picture.
+for the full picture and its limits.
 
 ### Raw repository output